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Charmaine Craig, Miss Burma
夏爾曼?克雷格《緬甸小姐》

When Louisa takes the stage to compete in the Miss Burma competition in the mid-1950s, it's not immediately evident how complicated her lineage is. Her Jewish father Benny was serving as a British customs officer in 1939 when he first spotted her mother Khim, a member of the Karen ethnic minority persecuted for centuries by the Bamar majority. When the Japanese occupied Burma during World War Two, the couple fled to the east to find shelter with Khim's Karen community. Benny is imprisoned, and Khim does what she must to survive. In 1948, after independence, they both support the Karen leaders in what evolves into a decades-long civil war. Craig draws from her own family history for this riveting account of the treacheries, fractures, and courageous acts of wartime. (Credit: Grove Press)
上世紀50年代中期，當路易莎站在舞臺上競選緬甸小姐時，并沒有馬上發現她的血統有多么復雜。她的猶太人父親是一名英國海關官員，1939年，父親本尼第一次遇見母親金。金是克倫族人，克倫族受緬甸主體民族緬族的迫害。二戰期間日本占領緬甸時，這對夫妻和克倫族人逃往緬甸東部尋找避難之地。本尼被囚禁，金不得不想辦法生存。1948年緬甸獨立后，在長達數十年的內戰中，這對夫婦都支持克倫族領導人。克雷格通過描寫自己家族的歷史，生動講述了戰爭時期的背叛、分裂以及英勇的故事。（來源：格羅夫出版社）